The  steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated
Subtitle: with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators.
By: By the Rev. Dionysius Lardner. With additions and notes, by James Renwick. Illustrated by engravings and woodcuts.
Contributors: Renwick, James, 1790?-1863.
Edition: 5th American, from the 5th London ed., considerably enl.
Publisher: Carey & Hart
Published: 1849
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Steam-engines -- Early works.